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New York Times:
Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned — The lawyer signed a statement in June that all documents marked as classified and held in boxes in storage at Mar-a-Lago had been given back. The search at the former president's home on Monday turned up more.
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Lackeys on Alleged FBI Agents' Families — Garrett Ziegler posted the personal info of purported FBI agents—along with links to one of their kids' social media accounts. — Just hours after a list began circulating among right-wing media of FBI agents who signed off …
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Insider and No More Mister Nice Blog
Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service:
Synagogue of judge who approved Trump's search warrant cancels Shabbat service
Synagogue of judge who approved Trump's search warrant cancels Shabbat service
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Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Cracks emerge in GOP's Mar-a-Lago response — Republicans are dividing over how or whether to defend former President Trump after the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago — and what to do about some members' heated rhetoric toward law enforcement. … - But even some Intelligence Committee Republicans …
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b'Raw Story and Politico
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John Solomon / Just The News:
New twist in FBI raid: Trump had ‘standing order’ to declassify documents taken to residence — Donald Trump's office told Just the News on Friday that the classified materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate were declassified under a “standing order” while he was president …
Alia Shoaib / Insider:
Trump's latest defense for Mar-a-Lago documents is everyone ‘brings home their work from time to time’ and the files were automatically declassified
Trump's latest defense for Mar-a-Lago documents is everyone ‘brings home their work from time to time’ and the files were automatically declassified
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Reuters and b'Raw Story
Philip Klein / National Review:
Trump's Explanation of Document Declassification Doesn't Pass the Smell Test
Trump's Explanation of Document Declassification Doesn't Pass the Smell Test
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HotAir and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
As Search Shows Trump Had Secret Files, G.O.P. Splits Over Assailing F.B.I.
As Search Shows Trump Had Secret Files, G.O.P. Splits Over Assailing F.B.I.
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Mother Jones, Daily Kos, The Atlantic, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Examiner, David Feldman Show, b'Raw Story and The Hill
NBC News:
How Democrats' surprise climate and health care bill came together after months of setbacks and reversals — WASHINGTON — Like many others in this town, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema first saw the news on Twitter. — Her fellow centrist Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia …
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Twitchy and Bangor Daily News
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New York Times:
A Detailed Picture of What's in the Democrats' Climate and Health Bill
A Detailed Picture of What's in the Democrats' Climate and Health Bill
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The Washington Current, Washington Post, Axios and High Plains Blogger
New York Times:
A Victory of Biden, and a Bet on America's Future
A Victory of Biden, and a Bet on America's Future
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Washington Examiner, Outside the Beltway, The Guardian, NBC News, CBS News, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Slate, Breitbart, Florida Politics, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams, NewsNation, USA Today, Townhall, PoliticusUSA, WV MetroNews, RedState, Black Westchester Magazine, Insider, globalnews.ca and UPI
Conrad Swanson / Denver Post:
Listen: Lauren Boebert's neighbors' 911 calls describe threats, husband running over mailbox — Garfield County Sheriff's deputies decided to let neighbors of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert settle a dispute between themselves and the congresswoman's husband after he reportedly threatened them and destroyed their mailbox.
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Insider, Washington Times, Streams of Crunchiness, b'Raw Story, Occupy Democrats and New York Post
Bari Weiss / Common Sense:
We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning — Words are not violence. Violence is violence. — We live in a culture in which many of the most celebrated people occupying the highest perches believe that words are violence. In this, they have much in common with Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini …
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The Book Haven, Slate, HotAir and RedState
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Joshua Goodman / NBC New York:
Who Is Hadi Matar? NJ Man Charged With Attempted Murder in Salman Rushdie Attack
Who Is Hadi Matar? NJ Man Charged With Attempted Murder in Salman Rushdie Attack
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Fox News, The Daily Beast, The Times of Israel, Telegraph, The Contrarian, New York Post, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, CBS News, ABC13 and The Periscope
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Documents show how Trump landed Lincoln Memorial for Fox News event — Trump's 2020 ‘town hall’ was held inside the memorial, an area where events have long been barred by federal regulations — In the spring of 2020, National Park Service personnel were preparing for an event President Donald Trump …
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Sinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party's longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals …
New York Times:
Dan Goldman N.Y. District 10 — New York's chaotic primary elections for Congress, which will be held on Aug. 23, are the outcome of Democrats in Albany having tried to do an end run around the state Constitution's ban on partisan gerrymandering. The courts smacked them down for that …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels — The suit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in a generation. — In the weeks after President Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 election, the Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed …
Nate Hochman / National Review:
Source Backs Bari Weiss Account That New York Times Wanted to Run Tim Scott Op-Ed by Schumer — A senior editor even provided the email address of a Schumer rep, NR is told. — The New York Times has repeatedly denied the explosive account from former Times journalist Bari Weiss …
Wall Street Journal:
The White House and Twitter Censorship — There's new evidence that Biden officials wanted the site to ban Alex Berenson. — WSJ Opinion: Censorship as Usual as Elon Musk Abandons Twitter Bid — Skip Ad — in 15 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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Global Community Weekly, Cafe Hayek, Fox News, Washington Times and Breitbart
Newt Gingrich / Newsweek:
Crossing the Rubicon at Mar-a-Lago — In response to the outrageous invasion of Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, several people have suggested the deep state in general—and the FBI in particular—have “crossed the Rubicon.” — On Monday, Buck Sexton told Jesse Waters:
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Fetterman says he is ‘grateful’ to be alive in first Senate campaign rally since suffering a stroke — Fetterman ‘grateful’ to be alive after suffering stroke, says wife saved his life — John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania …
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Amy Sherman / PolitiFact:
Why Trump is wrong to suggest Obama personally kept ‘33 million pages of documents’ — The Chicago Tribune reported in spring 2016 that the paperwork, electronic data and artifacts from Obama's presidency would temporarily go to a facility in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
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HuffPost, CNN, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Obama did not keep classified documents, the National Archives confirms.
Obama did not keep classified documents, the National Archives confirms.
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Chicago Sun Times, PoliticusUSA, Washington Times, Law & Crime and Balloon Juice